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Don McCullin, Legendary War Photographer, Reflects on His Career: “Am I Haunted by All This? I Think About It All the Time.”

Don McCullin, Legendary War Photographer, Reflects on His Career: “Am I Haunted by All This? I Think About It All the Time.”

“I’m not an artist. I’ve been struggling against that word all my life. The American photographers all want to be called artists. I’m a photographer and I stand by it.” - Don McCullin ...
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Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

John Downing was there when the IRA detonated a bomb to kill Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet ...
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London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

London Drivers In The 1980s – Photos by Chris Dorley-Brown

The cars, colours, haircuts and expressions of frustration capture the mood and tone of a unique era in Thatcher's Britain. ...
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When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

When Udo Kier starred in Andy Warhol’s ‘Blood for Dracula’

Udo Kier lost ten-kilos to play Dracula. He ate little more than salad leaf and water - "It’s not only Robert De Niro who prepares himself in this way” ...
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Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Houdini Beats The Devils: A Magician Among The Spiritualists, Fakirs and Psychics

Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the great showman and escapologist, sought to debunk the 1920s fashion for spiritualism in his book A Magician Among The Spirits (1924) ...
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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...
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Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Jack and the Giants was a variation on the book Jack the Giant Killer, which some of us had read or seen on Sunday afternoon television. ...
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‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

This series of 13 colour illustrations by Tony Sarg (April 21, 1880–March 7, 1942) take ...
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The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

Working with fellow puppeteer Bil Baird, Sarg built a 60-foot balloon dragon, tottering Felix the Cat, hummingbird, and other buoyant wonders that made their way down the Manhattan streets. ...
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‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

It was two-or-three weeks since I had written - a list of questions in search ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Born in France in 1964, Bibal started taking photographs in his late-teens and early-twenties but "nothing really serious." Any dreams he harboured were sidelined when he started work and focussed on having a regular life. This, of course, all changed on his fiftieth birthday. ...
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